Illuminating Peace
Date: Wednesday Dec 31, 1969 - Saturday Apr 14, 2012Community: Nanaimo
(Category: Artists & Fine Art Artisans, Galleries/ Exhibits/Shows, Gallery, Public Art Gallery)
Illuminating Peace, Seeking Peace
January 13, 2012 - April 14, 2012
Artists: Amy Loewan
Opening Reception: Friday, January 13th from 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm
Artist's Talk: Friday, January 13th from 4:30-5:30pm with Amy Loewan. The Nanaimo Art Gallery is excited to be presenting two talented artists with the theme of peace prevalent. The gallery at 900 Fifth Street will be transformed into a sanctuary for contemplation, and hope from January 13th to April 16th 2012.
Illuminating Peace: Amy Loewan’s exhibition and artist practices center on “creating work as a vehicle for personal transformation and promoting human understanding. I am dedicated to peace building and my career as a visual artist provides me with the avenue to carry out this task.”
Loewan was born at the end of Second World War. During a time when peace was finally declared in Hong Kong, she was named Wai-Ping – Wai, in Chinese, meaning gift, and Ping, meaning peace. While growing up her memories “include my parents caring for orphan cousins and relatives fleeing from war-torn China to British Hong Kong.
After living in Hong King, the U.S. and Australia she immigrated to Canada. In the last decade Loewan has been focused on integrating her multicultural learnings and reaching into the roots of her Chinese heritage by studying ancient symbols and eastern philosophies. By experimenting with the Chinese traditional art materials such and rice paper and ink, the large scale rice paper weaving installation of Illuminating Peace was created.
She states “When viewers are close enough to read this work, they are presented with eight values vital in human relationships: compassion, kindness, respect, understanding, patience, tolerance, gentleness and forgiveness. More than 35 world languages are interwoven into this work.”
Loewan encourages the public’s participation as viewers are invited to write/draw their visions of peace onto strips of rice papers and then weave them onto a separate panel.
Loewan states “In our contemporary society when we are constantly tempted to fear and to despair because of terrorism, global warming, nuclear weapons, depletion of natural resources, rending of social fabric and so on, I strongly believe a message of hope is crucial for our well being.”
Contact Info:
| Contact Name | chris |
| Phone | 250-740-6350 |
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| Website | www.nanaimoartgallery.com |
Location:
Nanaimo Art Gallery, 150 Commercial Street, Nanaimo